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“If you’re loving your Obamacough…if you’re loving that respiratory infection, it’s not a mystery – it comes from Obama’s children. If you’re enjoying that, why don’t you call Brian Higgins’ office and thank him for it, and ask if he’ll help pay your medical bills for whatever your doctor may have given you to counteract said cough.”

What is he talking about? What does this mean? What “Obamacough” did “Obama’s children” cause people in WNY to contract? Why should Brian Higgins pay for anyone’s medical bills, given that everyone in New York is mandated to have health insurance coverage nowadays either through their employer, through the exchange, or through Medicaid?

In what way is this responsible? What sort of radio station is this, exactly, this WBEN? I mean, I get Bauerle saying any old oddity – that’s his job – but when it crosses the line from commentary into crackpot tin-foil hattery, doesn’t someone step in and do something about it?

Please I do not listen to WBEN or care what Brian HIggins says so If this has nothing to do with it feel free to just delete or banish me, no need to reply by using fuck as a verb adverb, noun or adjective and showing everyone how your profanity somehow makes you smart

It’s so weird that the only sources I could find for this claim are fringe “news” sites! Either they’re the only ones who know the ~truth~ or they’re the only ones with the gall to politicize a virus that has killed children. Considering that conservatives were scaremongering about dirty immigrant children spreading disease months ago (and have been doing so off and on for the past couple hundred years), I’m going to go with the latter.

The CDC did NOT warn that the enterovirus had been spread or introduced by immigrant children, as the headline from that website claims. Nor does that other study linked in that article claim that this virus is more common in Central America than elsewhere. Here, have a snopes. http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/enterovirus.asp

The reference to Obama’s Children is indeed the flood of illegals crossing the border. It is disingenuous to think the reference is to Sasha and Malia. But, any old excuse to be offended, I suppose. Keep the CDC on the track of gun control and climate change–we wouldn’t want them distracted by, you know, disease control.